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Would you use just regular touch up paint for silkscreening or is it special paint?
Weren't all pins originally silkscreened - it seems logical to be able to re-screen them if it weren't too difficult..
Would you use just regular touch up paint for silkscreening or is it special paint?
Weren't all pins originally silkscreened - it seems logical to be able to re-screen them if it weren't too difficult..
Great info. metahugh.
So the screening process then appears to be the hardest part of the whole project once the artwork is completed.
Are you familiar with the process of making screens and what complexities arise from doing some complicated artwork with them?
It seems like the screening is the "black magic" in the whole restoration process. I'd be interested in learning about how its done and how they did them originally and how they are being done on some of the reproductions being done.
VB,
It's not paint, its actually ink. It is a special type of ink that needs to be used and would immediately need to be topcoated with some type of clearcoat.
Isn't that splitting hairs? I mean there are tons of things that are screen printed and don't need a coating, because the "ink" is basically a paint. Some of the inks are more like a plastic than an ink.
On this topic of reprinting a playfield though... There is a guy who was experimenting with reprinting playfields on a one-off basis using a large flat inkjet printer. The results weren't perfect but were pretty nice and showed potential, I thought. Especially as a way to repair a totally trashed playfield.
Wade
Have you considered having it printed by a non-silkscreen printer?I can tell you from experience that it is hard to get a screen made even after having the art vectored and ready to go. I am at that point with one of my pinball projects; I'm having a heck of a time finding a screener that will make a single color screen for me. Last company that was supposed to help me out took a year to create a test screen and ultimately never came through.
Screening ink is actually thicker than oil based paint for spraying.
Have you considered having it printed by a non-silkscreen printer?
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